Re: Ideal performance of ELisp (was: Why tree-sitter instead of Semantic? (was Re: CC Mode with font-lock-maximum-decoration 2))

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> ELisp code cannot match the speed of optimized C code.
>
> I suspect it could, to some extent, in theory.  Getting there would
> require a fair bit more work, probably using a different compilation
> strategy than the AOT compiler we have now.

Could it be possible to embed C snippets into lisp functions directly?
Similar to assembler snippets in C.

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